[WikiEN-l] Spam and advertising dilemma

[geni]

On 1/17/07, Steve Bennett <stevagewp at gmail.com> wrote:
> I feel like a baby for coming crying to the list, but so be it.
>
> I created [[One deal a day]], a business model used by certain
> web-based retailers. I added a list of retailers that use this
> model.[1] I linked them to their websites. Another user deleted the
> whole list as spam, citing our "Wikipedia is not a repository of
> external links" guideline.
>
> I contend that this alleged "list of links" is distinct from a normal
> list of advertising links as:
>  - the list is intended to be exhaustive
>  - the interest is in the retailer appearing in the list, not in
> sending the user to the website for further information

DMOS is that way.

>  - there is genuine interest in the list for its own sake: you could
> make a table and build further information about the entries, and you
> could easily conceive of someone doing research based on the list
>
> Am I wrong? Is the list just a glorified form of advertising?

It doesn't really matter since I can porbably come up with quite an
interesting set of policies that prevent it. no original research for
example.




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geni